Guild Wars 2

I like how large guilds are saying the current system is good because it forces people to join their blob guilds. Personally I think people should be in guilds because I dunno.. they enjoy the community? It’s hilarious that you can basically admit that the only reason you have for people to be in your blob guilds for you to leech off is by forcing them to be there and not because they want to be part if your community.

You say if the requirements were lower people would just keep to smaller guilds, I wonder why would they stick to smaller guilds rather than your blob guild?

Rentapest.6503:

This ability should not push an entire group off the map edge. It needs to be balanced and only affect 3-5 players.

Show me on this doll where the bad necro touched you poor eotm-er

pdavis.8031:

@non toxic
I’m going to laugh when , yes WHEN, the all the changes that people have been QQing about finally get released. The devs have stated multiple times that they have something in the works, but its not ready to go live yet. So unless they are straight up lying, which they have 0 reason to do so and in doing so would probably cost them their jobs, something IS coming. Its just not ready for launch.

Lord Krall bought a new account?

The second the devs said necros have a second health bar everyone who actually plays necro knew they are clueless.

They should bring back the orbs for a day so the fly hackers can role play

Lol if you believe this is anything other than the standard PR crap then you haven’t been here long enough.

Completely regret buying the expansion.. this is pathetic. It would be fine to make do with the situation if this was the free bi-weekly updates. This is a product we’ve paid for, its not ok for them to not deliver. This is ridiculous think about what you’ve paid for now, what is there on launch left that we have paid for.

People need to stop making excuses for them.. whether or not we’ll be able to finish the content required to start this stuff is irrelevant, it doesn’t justify having them not have to meet deadlines we have paid for.

ODB.6891:

Harper.4173:

Nike.2631:

Galespark.7835:

Adding to Conncepts post, I just assume good players wearing zerker will not be knocked into those firefields since they can dodge/block, or keep an ace up their sleeves for when it does happen to them (teleport, invulnerability…).

I entirely agree, with the key word being “good”. There are a lot of mediocre people in Berserker gear because the game’s a lot more forgiving than folks realize. If I have an agenda its not to see Berserker rendered useless, it’s to see it rendered risky enough that people accept that even if they personally have spider-sense and can hit every crucial dodge, not everyone should roll that way for fear of excessive floor-licking.

You do realize the majority of players are not in zerker gear do you?

This^

I pretty much pug exclusively because I prefer the convenience of just grabbing a quick random fractal group, whenever I happen to be online. I would say more than 60% of players I’ve encountered are wearing something other than zerker gear. That 60% is probably and understatement. It amazes me how players are so caught up in trying to find and justify ways to penalize players who wear zerker gear. Its not as if the entire PvE model isn’t based on one shot mechanics already….that by default…penalize zerker gear more than any other gear type.

I’m actually in favor of mechanics that involve strategy…versus always staying in a stack…not that I don’t like the stack either though. Just so long as the strategies aren’t gimmicks that become tedious after the first couple of times or that require you to gear differently to avoid getting an unavoidable one shot.

I don’t see the taunt mechanic as being a PvP only thing…as someone else pointed out…it will apparently be a contributor to the defiance/break bar in PvE apparently. I’m just wary of the slippery slope of introducing more and more things into the game that could eventually lead to requiring groups to bring someone to control aggro…hence an eventual tank requirement.

One shot mechanics promote zerker meta. If there is someone wearing full zerker and someone wearing full pvt but both insta-down to the same one-shot attack if they dont dodge, then whats the point of having any toughness or vitality stats. There should be a viable option to build for sustain otherwise atleast where pve is concerned, all those fancy traitlines and stat combinations are just for show and obselete.

Lol why do people seem to think a Condi roamed can stack 100bleeds alone…. I mean even if he can stack well over 25 bleeds you are as good as dead if you allow him to stack 25 bleeds alone.

Pensadora.9478:

Possibly they have told us the truth all along:

They HAD been working on the overhaul for an entire year, and planned to release it just after HOT. BUT…. the changes they showcased with the expansion were so poorly received that they’ve ditched their plans and are going back to redesign yet again. (That may not be the worst outcome.)

So, maybe they are overhauling the overhaul, and that could be a direct result of listening to our feedback.

Problem is, they have difficulty telling us that since the ‘powers that be’ were previously sure in their (his) conviction that all of us who love WvW equally love PvE.

To announce that they are overhauling the unreleased, yet likely PvE-based WvW, would be to admit how fundamentally wrong they were to think we would whole-heartedly embrace it in the first place.

Nah, if they were to listen to the wvw community that would mean getting rid of almost all guild hall upgrades available in wvw. Guild hall upgrades are OP in wvw specifically to make more HoT sales, and it is such a grind to get those upgrades to sell gems. Its working exactly as they want right now.

Its the same reason they are going to just switch on gliding in core tyria without actually revamping maps with at least accurate invisible walls, no work went into making that a reality, they simply are going to recklessly turn it on and deal with the consequences of breaking jumping puzzles or players glitching through maps later. The sole reason for such a reckless move is make more free to play players buy HoT upon seeing everyone glide around.

Honestly they seem to be pulling a trion move right now. Taking a potentially great game (archeage) with a promising future and sacrifice its years by turning it into a cash cow to make short term money.

It’s like every time one disappears a new one pops up. First there was lordkrall, then the tag team (or double account) of coglin and dancingmonkey and now this guy pops up.

(In case there’s a misunderstanding for those who don’t know what I’m talking about – not talking about OP)

Here we go, the damage control message deleting has begun. Ill see you on greener pastures my brethrin

Silverstone.4539:

if that is the case. Why would they promise something they can’t deliver on.

What better way is there to make money than by selling something that doesnt exist and not only getting away with it but have consumers defend you?

lawl literally have no words for this bullkitten

You guys realise that probably the biggest reason specialisations haven’t been talked about or put in the beta is because the content isn’t anywhere near being completed right lol? That goes for most of the content in HoT. What people are failing to realize is that the majority of the content wasn’t being completed in secret all this time in some good-willed plan by anet but being created from scratch as we speak. People should weigh up whether the missing content from the usual updates is significantly less than what this expansion will give us.

This is hilarious, a bandwagoner trying to pretend he has server loyalty

How about actually balance the game instead of taking the cheap way out again and hard capping how many of one profession you can have per team?

This post is the reason for most things wrong with the world, people unable to put themselves in others’ shoes. Its all about ‘me’.

Stick to singleplayer rpgs if you cant handle the game not turning off when its time for you to go to bed.

Jski.6180:

Vieux P.1238:

One word Bois.. CROWFALL… Bois.

About a year+ off in its own right.

You guys want to hear about what going to happen but when your faces with the really of what your asking for and the time to make it work this is how you guys react i can see why they give no info most of the time. Read just read how you guys react to any new things and ask your self why dont they add new things in.

Theres always one that still defends them.. even when its already over. Anet lost, wvw is already dead – look around you and compare it to videos from two years ago.

70-100 devs out of 210 working on the second expansion instead of finishing this one.

It’s little red raiding hood Jake :P

And lol if ~5 people fighting the same ~5 people on a video that crops the fights from a large amount of time defending an upgrading keep without seeing another soul isn’t a tell tale sign to you that population wise the border is dead I don’t know what to say. Don’t take every opportunity you can to push for the propaganda that the game mode isnt dwindling.

As for my opinion I personally think the map is pretty much fine except it’s built to house far more players than even the map cap and we’re having issues with finding more than 10 people per server on it.

On three separate occasions I have gone 2-3 hours of roaming without actually finding an enemy player.

Maikky.8526:

Unblockable, undodgeable one shots

What a game

Yeah that’s not challenging in my opinion that’s just cheesy gimmicks to give the illusion of difficulty. They should be working to implement more of the existing combat system (give mobs pulsing boons so they encourage stripping/corrupting etc) not less of it.

To the people defending them saying it’s a big step up or spvp is apparently in its infancy – was it worth the $200k though ?

RabbitUp.8294:

Zetsumei.4975:

lordkrall.7241:

So… how is Reaper any less generic than the Dragonhunter, which people raged like mad about being so generic?

Its not that dragonhunter is generic.. its that it sounds like a dev gave his 5 year old son a minute to come up with the guard spec name.

And Reaper is better on that regard?

Its playing it safe in my opinion, and I would’ve complained about wanting banshee or wraith but then they gave us a kitteng dervish scythe

Cant wait to see anet squirm when camelot unchained is released

People who get demoralized after the first wipe.

Vayne.8563:

Zetsumei.4975:

Vayne.8563:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I’m less concerned with their intentions and more concerned with their penchant for selling content they don’t later deliver.

It hasn’t really happened often in this game though. This current legendary system is probably the worst example of it.

You know the wvw 2.0 overhaul has been cancelled right? ..

Actually I don’t know that even a little. That’s not what was said anywhere. They wanted to roll it out all at once and now it’ll be rolled out in stages to get parts of it into the game faster.

Youve been here long enough to have heard them say that 3 years ago, dont tell me after all this time you still believe that PR crap.

Back into their pokeballs of course

This isn’t an exploit. They even specifically said that a benefit of this change means that they don’t have to deal with the AC exploiters before the patch because it puts everyone on a level playing field. There have been suggestions to fix the field of view automatically when you wield an AC etc though.

Matisse.9356:

Wolfs Shadow.7234:

kdaddy.5431:

Whoa whoa dont blame them, there is no counter for them.

Currently only 1-2 teams actually counter this meta out of 16 and dont blame them for anet not doing there jobs.

I don’t care how bad ANET is at balancing, or how lopsided a match is. There are players in pvp right now that would kill for the opportunity to play in this tournament whether they win or lose. Those member(s) of Zero Counterplay that did rage quit are as pathetic as it gets.

I have no respect for players or teams that rage quit; regardless of the circumstances, the sportsmanship goes right out the window.

How can anyone give excuses to rage quitters.

I agree 100%.
No matter how frustrating it is, you play for league and as such that sort of immature behaviour has no place at all.

From my point of view, the rage-quitter(s) – not the whole team per se – should receive the red card for the next season.

No respect.
None.

To be honest this just sounds like jealousy and nothing more.

coglin.1867:

sminkiottone.6972:

coglin.1867:

Tom Gore.4035:

Make the best personal rewards in WvW come from killing enemy players, not capturing objectives.

perhaps you are new to WvW, but killing enemy player is not, nor has every been, the actual object of the game mode.

WvW is PvP, if you like WvE you can go EoTM.

Capturing objective should be the least rewarded thing in WvW, defending and killing other players should be far more rewarding.

Remind us again, How do you win a match up?

Coverage and population.. it’s a joke that there are still ppt heroes around

No it’s because everyone needs shovels for guildhalls.

“Collections for the existing legendary weapons will be available on launch day, while the first three new legendaries will become available shortly after launch, alongside raids.”

That was taken from the blog about the legendaries. I was already disgusted that they made it out like they were time-gating content for us when really it’s because they couldn’t finish making the content for their given deadline but if I’m reading this correctly, none of the new legendaries or raids will be ready for launch?

Oh wow lol this is pretty game breaking

Lets just hope they don’t count the eotm community and wishes as the wvw population.

Zach.2618:

Nothing to be in a fuss about IMO, it’s not like they were late donating organs to a patient or something causing his death. It’s just a game, if they’re releasing it late it means it probably still needs some polishing and stuff. Better than being sold a broken product.

Again, that’s just making excuses for them. As customers we should not have to choose between buggy or finished. An expansion is different from free updates, they are being paid to deliver a finished, non-buggy product. This is real money.

Anyway ugh no point ranting too much just need to hurry and find another game to move on to.

Hahaha

Guys we divided by zero, we got lordkrall and coglin into an argument against each other

Anet : “doesn’t matter, bought gems lol”

King Noob IV.3560:

RoseofGilead.8907:

King Noob IV.3560:

Khisanth.2948:

Ranger, thief, necro, engineer have “native” access but every profession can get poison if they want to. In PvE/WvW there is also the option of racial skills.

kitten it i was hoping it’d just be thief and necro. well the others besides thief probably got long cooldowns on their poison skills right? I really just want to focus on removing poison with my condition cleanse

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Poison

That has a list of every skill and trait that creates poison. And all four (ranger, thief, necro, and engi) have pretty fast and easy access to poison.

oh yea I could of just looked there huh. none of those look bad at all except for the utility skills which I have not yet checked. I think necros and thieves are the only ones with a lot of poison, the others aren’t that bad, I’ll just use my condition cleanse when I’ve got one with a long tick of time since their poison utility skills are probably on a way longer CD than my cleanse

Actually you can just get 100% uptime with superior sigil of doom lol and a lot of builds in pvp have at least one equipped

KRUSSIDULL.6845:

It’s really difficult to come up with names for new characters or change the name on an existing one.

I recently changed the name on one of my characters but the name was already taken so I had to settle with an accent on one the letters. Sadly this was a huge mistake as it makes it harder for other people to whisper me and use the squadjoin command. Thankfully I got help from the Anet support to change my name again.

As a lot of names are already taken even with addition of surnames etc. added to the name the chances are that is is already taken and you have to settle with a name you don’t enjoy and hard to remember etc.

My suggestion is to make names unique to each server. But hold it right there, Aren’t the game now using this mega-server system? Yes but what if you whispered, squadjoin or add a friend you will at first add the players on your home server. If you wish to add someone on another server with the same name you have to add the Server name before the character name. Like for example Server Name Character Name. Also if there would be another character with the same name there could be a drop-down list with the server name(s) before the character name.

This way it’s possible to release more names for people without removing names from inactive account even if I would prefer 3+ years inactive account should have their names released for others to use.

/discuss

You know you can transfer servers in this game right..

Trading post flipping been slow lately?

Prysin.8542:

necro hits hard PR target, it does not hit as many as ele. It is the combination of hard hitting marks and wells with a broad damage cover from eles that makes necros so strong.

Without others to soften targets up, targets would just run through all your DPS without even flinching. Such is the nature of wells. They pulse, so the damage is pr second.

to give people an idea. Icebow + staff ele.
Meteor shower = 24×3 targets = 72 enemies damaged with ONE skill covering a ridiculous area

Icebow 4 = 24x 5 targets (does not have reduced cap pr shard it seems) = 120 targets damaged.

so while EACH necro wells/marks hit is higher, they hit LESS players. in no way do i intend to discredit them, but more icebow and meteors will do more damage to the blob then more necros. The eles quantity of hits will surpass the necromancers quality hits.

Eles also got better support, better mobility MOAR STABILITY. strong CC.

I do like playing staff and wells necro in WvW, fun times, DS is a real joy to use because it makes it so much more forgiving. On the contrary, you leech off your allies almost as bad as rangers. Probably slightly worse since you do not have your own stability.

Please, do play your necromancer. Carry on, i dont care, just like i do not care that you do not want my ranger in the zerg. Ill play what i want, ill play it good, and if i drag peoples feet ill just switch my build around a little to remove my weaknesses. Oh, that is right, necromancers cannot do that as easily either.

See my point here?
Necromancers is not BAD, they got shafted.
By whom?
The devs.

Blame the devs for not giving you any decent stability outside a super long CD elite and a GM trait with a ICD to it….

either way, i stand firm.
If the meta no longer favors pure MT, then the next “best” thing is hybrid frontline with a more CC and support heavy mid/backline.

Id love to see engineers get a slot, they have the tools to do so. All they need is someone to stand up for em and make it happen

Lol you’re so lacking in knowledge of how the backline works in zergbusting I’m not going to bother explaining anymore it’ll take too long, I haven’t got that much time. It’s cute that you think you can finally push necros out of the meta in favour of rangers or engis with pure propaganda, unfortunately their arguably the most important profession to have on your team comp so you’re going to have to put in a lot more effort, but good luck ! ^^

Puck.9612:

ArchonWing.9480:

Players can no longer rally off of basic creatures in WvW.

Oh glorious day!

Basic creatures as in red n yellow mobs? Finally !

Now all they need to do is make them all ambients while keeping their character models for immersion so theyre no longer an interference in fights.

Coldtart.4785:

Stability can now be countered by the one mechanic it was made to counter. Explain how that is even remotely good.

Truer words have not been said.

Moonlit.6421:

Lol of all the pitiful threads I’ve read today, this one just feels outright sad. There’s so many people in this game who are just ready to rise up and complain at the slightest discomfort I can’t believe it lol. I mean really, asking for a refund now? For one they already released a considerable amount of info both in the form of videos and announcements and in the beta tests so I didn’t think most things were to unexpected. Am I particularly happy about some of the changes and having to go hard for specs and masteries? Maybe not but I have other fun things to do while I do them so who cares lol. Even if I did buy the expansion though and hated everything about it I would never ask for a refund however. I made the decision to spend money on it and if the game didn’t meet up with what I wanted it to well that sucks but to bad. I honestly think this expansion is what a lot of players need, people have been complaining about easy content for a while now well guess what, here you go lol you asked for this! Now not everything’s handed to everyone and you have to work a little for it, be happy people asked for this after all. X3 Just wish people could learn to take GW2 for what it is, a game, and stop acting like they’ve been cheated every time the game doesn’t go in the direction they want it to.

/rant off

People aren’t complaining about difficulty they’re complaining about grind to artificially extend what is possibly a very lacking amount of real content. They’re two very different things.

Wvw wasn’t meant to be a pvd fest, you have silverwastes for that. Wvw was losing dramatically more players from having barren maps than it ever will from temporary queues.

coglin.1867:

Zetsumei.4975:

Belenwyn.8674:

Wait until resistance and shield generators are available. This will shift the meta another time. Just pave your way with shield domes and say bye-bye to CCs.

Open field siege? That’s the ultimate disgrace for a fights guild, guilds with any dignity will quit before resorting to this as a norm.

So out of some artificial and irrational, self limiting “dignity” that you created for yourself, you will not take the logical ad advantage? That is your problem. No need to project your irrational sense of tactics on others.

Are you sure the majority of guilds will ‘adapt’ to open field siege and enjoy it, calling it skillful? Why don’t you see all guilds strategically using open field ac’s and ballistas?

DrGamer.9567:

Hi everyone, I’m a new player and would like to know the top america servers to join. Can I still get into the “tier 1” servers (blackgate, etc.)? How do I know how many people there are in the “very high” population servers? Basically, I want to get into the best one possible, but don’t know which to choose.

The server rankings arent about which server is best, its a ranking of which servers have the most numbers and coverage.

lil devils x.6071:

briggah.7910:

Keviin Snow.5760:

Katz I agree , t1 & 2 leave it alone

I haven’t seen all 4 maps queued in T1 but I’ve only been here since HoT. The most I’ve seen since I’ve been here is a queue on EBG and maybe 1 or 2 bls with small queues not over 10 – 15 but even that was a rare thing..

When I logged in a few hours ago EBG was outnumbered in T1

Prior to HoT, it was normal to have all 4 maps queued in T1, not just for reset either. Hot just made so many players quit the game that was no longer the case. Players coming back in hopes of them fixing it ( giving Anet another chance) would be what they want to happen, but if they cannot play at all and the changes are not what they asked for, you can expect them to just leave again. People saying the " queues will die down" should understand that is the worst thing that could happen, as them dying down means all those players just left the game again.

This is their opportunity to increase the number of players playing and improve the health of the game, if they blow that chance, that means they lost an opportunity to prevent the games decline. Players should want the game to keep growing, not die. Asking them not to make improvements that actually solve these issues long term is just asking them to kill the game faster.

Indeed but players should correctly convey they want anet to use a similar format for na as they do for eu rather than have a knee-jerk and immature reaction by asking to have the system completely removed.

From simple observation of the forums, i believe it can be seen that almost if not all eu players strongly feel this was a step in the right direction.